These drafts, ordered from most recent to oldest, reflect the many changes to Goedicke's meditation on presenence and absence, sound and silence. Based on the notes at the top of each draft, the poem has been read by Sally, Sarah, and Melissa. ...

In November of 1988, Patricia Goedicke delivered a lecture at the University of Kansas in Lawrence about the function of sound and silence in poetry. These are the notes for that lecture, which emerged from an imitation workshop she taught...

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